Now he’s a calmer chameleon

Share via

Interview: He says he’s mellowed but Jonathan Pryce, back in the West End, can’t resist an edgy role

AFTER 15 years spent playing the lead in mega-musicals and getting himself cast in film roles as various as a Bond villain, Lytton Strachey, Juan Perón and Keira Knightley’s father in Pirates of the Caribbean, Jonathan Pryce is securely back where he best belongs. At 56 he is, after all, as fine a straight actor as his generation has produced. And he’s re- emphasising the point with one of the strangest characters that even he, a specialist in bringing oddball outsiders to life, has yet performed: Martin, the married architect who falls in love with the four-legged mammal that gives